Current approaches to delivering clinical information to harried physicians either aggregate medical literature or provide synopses. Neither approach provides the solution MD's want: just the signal, not the noise. ChartLink, our web-based product, automatically provides a physician with the most recent medical literature with the greatest relevance to each of a patient's diagnostic profiles. Once diagnostic information is provided  to our database, our knowledge engine will continue to perform forward searches and provide relevant new information as soon as it is available on the web.

ChartLink assures timely, automated, and organized access to the most up to date medical library and clinical practice. Changes in clinical practice that are relevant to a physician's patients are automatically delivered - and nothing more. Five categories of information, highly targeted to the specifics of the patient and pre-screen for relevance are provided:

• Current medical literature (journals and medical texts)

• Clinical Trials

• Clinical Practice Guidelines

• Patient Education Information

• Pharmaceutical Information (dosing, potential drug/food interactions)

Additionally, opportunities will exist for physicians to earn CME credits through ChartLink. Currently, physicians have a wide variety of opportunities to earn CME credits, which fall into two general categories: those that are attached to recreational opportunities, e.g., professional meetings in the Virgin Islands, and those that are integrated into the tasks of the physician's daily life. ChartLink credits are associated with the latter: after an article from one of the journals to which the physician subscribes, he/she will be offered a series of questions testing his/her knowledge of the article. CME credits are generated if the answers are correct.

ChartLink differentiates itself from competing services by uniquely performing all of the work: all of the information is proactively delivered by the system without the need for the physician to do any searching or interrupt his/her normal workflow.

Additionally, ChartLink performs forward searches: as soon as an article is available, even prior to hard copy being delivered, the system generates an e-mail, alerting the physician to its availability (its URL is displayed), and identifying the patients for whom it is relevant. ChartLink will be accessible by both conventional means and wirelessly, giving the physician the same ability to be connected to information as they are when using their cell phones.

We are currently in beta testing with plans for general release in the third quarter of 2004